kasper13

10 sick days, 10 personal days, 2 weeks paid vacation. 1st two weeks of July off, two weeks off at Christmas/New Years, all holidays off and all are paid. If I do not use sick/personal days, I get paid for them at the end of the year. I can't complain.

Here's a little known Al Michaels fact. The first NFL game that he did play-by-play for was in 1971 on NBC. The teams? Buffalo vs. Minnesota. Vikings won 19-0. Michaels remembered that the Bills only won one game in 1971 and that particular game was late in the season, it was very cold and that it was televised in only about 5 markets across the country.

There was nothing like the community stuff and charities like there are today in the NFL. Not many players, if any, did stuff like that back in the day. OJ was always for OJ and that is all. He always wanted more money, wanted to be traded or held out. All he wanted to do was make commercials & movies The big secret back then was that OJ partied big time at bars & clubs in WNY. Cocaine was the drug of choice among other Bills & Sabres- that was commonplace back in the 70's. No such thing as drug tests in the NFL back then. He beat his first wife. He also had a kid that drowned in the back yard swimming pool. He was never happy in Buffalo. (Was he ever anywhere? Maybe he will enjoy hell) All anyone remembers is the 2,000 yard season in 1973. OJ was a scumbag back then just like he is today. If the internet was around back then, OJ would not have been a fan favorite. He was really all the Bills had back then so the fans hung on to him. He had 3 great seasons and 2 other 1,000+ yard seasons and one playoff game to show for his 9 seasons in Buffalo.

Trade it for an extra pick or two. Lots of good but not great OL prospects in the 3rd-5th rounds. Just get as many picks as possible and load up instead of getting one guy that everyone will call a bust before he even steps on the field as a Buffalo Bill because no matter what the Bills do people will hate it. .

Certainly was right Go Sabres!

$600,000 to install the rink for one game. That is not happening in Buffalo. Who the heck would pay for it?

So, MNF is just going to be Sunday Night Football on NBC. Monday Night Football is now on ESPN and has quite possibly the worst two analysts in history with Tony Kornheiser (Dennis Miller wasn't available?) and Joe Theismann, who will still be annyoing the hell out of everyone every week. YAY! How will Tony ever get a word in? Not that it will be interesting or amusing anyways. Throw in TWO female sidleine reporters (Suzy "Lightsocket Hair" Kolber and Michele Toyota) and I think MNF will be a total disaster on ESPN. I hope they show at least some of the game between all the talking and the endless ESPN Promos. Any idea who will be doing the Thursday/Saturday Games on the NFL Network? I heard Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire are doing college football games for ESPN. It's a shallow talent pool out there. I have a great idea for the NFL. The Wednesday Night Game of the Week on the Home Shopping Channel. No announcers, no commercials, just hosts selling NFL merchandise during the entire game.

I throw my empty Crown Royal bottles into the fireplace. I throw my empty Johnnie Walker Blue Bottles against the wall. I'm funny that way

Do we really need more ESPN? I think NOT. 62 ESPN Channels on TV plus Radio, the Internet, restaurants and a magazine. Now a phone? There is such a thing as overkill. ESPN has gone above and beyond. When did they stop covering games and start covering themselves?

A sequel in the works perhaps? Brokeback Six Flags? Dan Snyder could play his boyfriend.

Brokeback Six Flags? Maybe not.

I saw Paul Hamilton on camera during the Lindy Ruff PC the other night against Ottawa. Let's just say he shouldn't criticize anyone. Two goals including the game winner in OT and Max shouldn't be one of the three stars? Talk about being full of yourself. I thought for sure the Sabres were going to get bent over by the replay booth again late in third. Got a call in our favor and at least the refs called a fair game for a change. Anyways, the Sabres won on the road against a desperate Montreal team tonight. Sabres were coming off a huge win against Ottawa and the Montreal goalie Huet had back-to-back shutouts. A letdown could have been expected and, hell, even excused at this point, yet they pulled off another win. Now is not the time to start criticizing wins, especially road wins. 2 points is 2 points no matter how un-pretty they may be. Sabres are 35-15-0-3- 73 points. That's good for 2nd in the division (only 4 points behind Ottawa) and 4th in the Eastern Conference. They have exceeded everyone's expectations to this point and it's just a fun team to watch. Plus, Briere is coming back either Thursday or Saturday. Just enjoy the ride, I know I am.

Why should Vegas respect the Bills (or anyone else for that matter)? To get respect, you have to earn respect and the Bills have certainly not done anything to gain anyone's respect at this point. I'd bet a billion dollars, if I had it, that the Bills do not win the Super Bowl next season and there is not one person in Las Vegas or anywhere else that would take that bet.

NFL is buried head to ass in sand. The referees are a big joke and are ruining the game. It wasn't just the SB or the entire playoffs for that matter. This has been going on for years and is only getting worse. How much more money can the NFL rip people off for before admitting there is a problem with 60+ year old retirees officiating NFL games? I'm sick and tired of it. Anyone who doesn't think there is a problem with the refs is just delusional.

I've been saying it for 6 months now. The NFL is going to crash and burn because of owners like Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones and their greed. The owners fighting amongst themselves about how to share billions of dollars let alone sharing it with the players is going to be the downfall of the NFL as we know it. The current CBA expiring after the 2006 season and the "threat" of an uncapped salary system is going to be a disaster for a whole bunch of teams and the league overall.

Aaron Neville looked like he was trying to drop a log on the stage. Horatio Sanz sings Neville better than Neville does. Why can't that dude get that giant mole removed from his head? That thing has it's own zip code. I wonder how much it cost the NFL to take the roof off of Ford Field to airlift Aretha Franklin in to sing? I bet she was paid in food. Ford Field would have ran out of hot dogs, nachos and pizza but Aretha left at halftime. Jesus, just put the fork down and back away from the buffet once in awhile.

I wonder what else Gretzky's Wife has done w/o Wayne knowing? Yes, I am hoping she did a porn movie.

There is no longer an AM Radio Station in Buffalo that plays music. Kind of like the Dinosaur anyways. Free radio sucks.

USA added Miller to the Taxi Squad yesterday. That means if someone is injured, Miller can be added to the regular roster. I'd rather have Miller stay in Buffalo and rest up for March, April & the PLAYOFFS instead of traveling to Italy, playing a bunch of high intensity games and then traveling back. Sabres play 26 games in 48 days to finish the season after the break.

In the old AFL days, the AFL Champion played the AFL All Stars. After the 1965 season, the AFL All Stars beat the Buffalo Bills 30-19. Can you imagine that nowadays? The Steelers playing the NFL All Stars this Sunday? That would be worse than what they have now. I can't stand the Pro Bowl and have not watched one in years.

Without a cap/revenue sharing, the Bills are done (along with a bunch of other teams). They would very quickly become the NFL version of MLB's Pirates, Royals and Devil Rays. Teams like the Redskins and Cowboys would easily have payrolls in the $275 million plus range. The top 10 money teams are trying to get more for themselves and screw the bottom tier of teams. Free Agency would also become worthless because Snyder of Jones could beat any offer and will throw outrageous amounts of money at any name player. If it were an uncapped year now, a player like Terell Owens, for example, would get $20 million a year. Take Willis McGahee for another example. Let's say he plays out his contract and becomes a free agent in an uncapped year. What do the Bills do? They make him an offer and watch it get trumped by millions per season by a warm weather team. They will not be able to compete for free agents or keep draft picks past their first contract. If an uncapped system comes in, say good bye to the Bills.

Pick any between XXV-XXVIII. I still don't remember any of the 2nd half of XXVII. Besides the Bills SB's, two bad ones in recent memory are XXXIII- Denver-Atlanta & whatever one Baltimore-NY Giants was. Actually, besides losing, Super Bowl XXV, in my opinion, was one of the top football games of all-time. Overall, the Super Bowl is the most hyped, most overrated production in all of sports. It never lives up to all the hype. XL was especially bad from the pregame to the anthem to the commercials, the half time show and the game itself. All lousy, lackluster and just crap really. Maybe it was the location, maybe it was the 5 second delay on the telecast, maybe it was the two teams playing, maybe it was that the game was in February. I don't know but it didn't feel like the Super Bowl and it certainly did not live up to it's name.

The refs were garbage yesterday but when the hell have they ever been any good? This sequence in the 4th finally ruined the NFL for me for a good long while and I didn't even care who won the game. Phantom holding call on Seattle on the pass to the one, Porter not called for a "horse collar" tackle on Alexander and then an illegal block penalty on Hasselback who was not blocking but making a tackle after his INT. One missed/bad call- that happens at least once a quarter but three in less than 45 seconds? I hope the Steelers at least give the refs Super Bowl rings, if not a full game check. Seattle did not play well but throw in the rinky dink offensive pass interference on a TD, Ben R's phantom TD that was not overturned on replay and numerous holding calls on Seattle on third downs that they converted and there you have it. The NFL needs to have full time refs who pass an annual physical, eye test and a tough conditioning test. Calls need to be made consistently both ways and also have to be called right close to 100% of the time. Until then, the NFL is just a big joke.

Here's a crazy idea that would add even more interest to the Super Bowl and to the Pro Bowl and give the average fan to maybe see a Super Bowl live once in their lives. Make the Pro Bowl count. Put real bullets in the gun for the Pro Bowl. Winning Conference gets home field advantage for the Super Bowl the following year AND the game is played at the HOME Stadium of whatever team makes it to the Super Bowl. Rotate the Pro Bowl among the warm weather cities. (New Orleans, Miami, LA, ect.) For example- The Pro Bowl for the 2004 season was won by the NFC. That would have given the NFC Home Field for this seasons Super Bowl which would have ended up obviously as Pittsburgh at Seattle. That gives the fans in Seattle a chance to go to a Super Bowl and would still give the rich folk a chance to get wasted for a week in a warm weather city (the following week at the Pro Bowl) It would also be twice as much hype for the NFL and that means more ad dollars in Jerry Jones & Dan Snyders wallets. There would still be the two weeks of buildup for the SB and there would still be the 12 hour Super Bowl pregame show and everything else that goes with it- the SB would just be a home game for one of the teams. Just imagine what it would be like in WNY if the Bills ever get back to the playoffs and have a shot to play the Super Bowl at Home in RWS. Talk about insanity.

No way, eh? Four reasons. One: Skydome or Rogers Centre as it's called these days is not big enough. They only have aboot 54,000 seats. Two: The exchange rate. Canadian Loonie is still weaker than the American Dollar. Combine those two factors and tickets would have to be minimum $150-$200 each to offset the revenue loss of 20,000 less fans and the exchange rate difference. Three: The game(s) would never sell out because they are not played on ice. Four: It would not be a money making proposition and the Bills can't afford that. Bills have played a preseason game or two before in TO. If they want to do that again, go ahead but never a regular season game unless the threat of moving to Anaheim was no longer a threat but a very real possibility (which it may be if the CBA goes boom and there is an uncapped year- the Bills would quickly become the Pirates/Royals/Devil rays of the NFL)